Category: sxd

Team Roles Needed for Social Software Projects

Jun 20, 2016

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Content Mangement, Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Refindability, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd, Technology, User Experience

I have a lot of hands-on designing, developing, and managing of social / collaborative platforms since 1996 and regularly advise product makers, vendors, and buyers around right fitting and understanding then working on solving problems they may have. One of the things that was regularly surfacing around 2007 as enterprise social platforms were getting taken…
Diversity of Enterprise Social Tools

Mar 10, 2016

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd

One constant in the 20 years I’ve been working in and around organizations and their social platforms is lack of understanding of the diversity of tool types. Today that lack of understanding of the diversity continues, but the diversity and the dimensions in that diversity have increased. Since 2004 I’ve run workshops, given talks, written…
Slack is more than chat: Why it is the trojan horse to better enterprise

Aug 25, 2015

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Portability, Refindability, Social Software, sxd, Technology, Tools, User Experience

During the last couple of years, since Slack has been publicly available, it has taken off like wildfire. To many it is “just a chat service”, which gets derided and belittled like most chat services do. This is until they find that chat has not only a place in organizations it has lasting value in…
Running Podular Teams

May 15, 2015

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Enterprise, Social Software, sxd, Technology, Tools

One of the things that has brought happiness from the Connected Company book being out for nearly three years (now in paperback), is getting the idea of podular teams and organization out there for a wider understanding. From 2001 onward I ran my product and project teams in a podular manner. Since then I have…
Shift Happened – Part 1: More Productive Not Using Productivity Tools

Mar 4, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Community, Content Mangement, Devices, Enterprise, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Mobile, Portability, Shift Happened, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd

Over the past six months or so, I’ve been increasingly hearing from IT leaders in organizations who have been surprised by a shift in how people work digitally. The work patterns related to this shift are far from new and, in fact, are well over a decade old. Nonetheless, some have been surprised by who,…
Alexander Howard Interview with Christopher (moot) Poole from October 2011 Transcript

Dec 12, 2013

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Identity, Social Software, sxd

The video interview is at YouTube Christopher Poole Interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit 2011 4Chan is 8 years old and Christopher founded it when he was 15 years old. Transcript of the core conversation: Alex Howard: … What have you learned along the way? Christopher Poole: I think that I’ve learned more about what not…
Mistaking the Edges for the Norm

Jun 22, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Social Software, sxd, Technology, User Experience, Web/Tech

One of the best lessons from social quantitative analysis in grad school (public policy) was learning to understand if you are viewing edge cases or the norm (mainstream). Humans have some common traits, but when you start to design or develop any sort of program (be it government services or social software) you start to…
Microsoft and Yammer?

Jun 14, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Enterprise, Social Software, sxd

Yesterday’s news of the rumor that Microsoft is about to purchase Yammer surfaced and Bloomberg was able to get confirmations there were talks happening. This one seemed a little odd last evening as the rumor broke, but then the ambient signals that myself and others had been seeing with Yammer made sense in that light.…
Beyond Simple Social Presentation

Jun 8, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Knowledge Management, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd, User Experience

We have been here before. Where we are with social tools in organizations has been done before and not overly well. But, where we are today is a place we have been twice before in my working career. We had groupware and knowledge management tools in this same spot. Similar promise and similar success both…
Presenting “Beyond Simple Social” In SF May 30th

May 25, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd, User Experience, Web

I am presenting “Beyond Simple Social” at Salesforce in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 30. Please join us – Eventbright free ticket. Interfaces for social software are simple. But designing, developing and managing social platforms is not. I will present some of the lenses he uses to help companies increase user adoption and engagement by…